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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
In Dinner at God's House by Todd B. Lieman, on the night Erik decides he no longer belongs in his own life, a car ends everything he thinks he knows about himself. In the location that follows, his childhood dog waits beside a stranger who delivers a dinner invitation at God’s house. To understand why, Erik walks through a place shaped by the work he left too early and by the relationships and ambitions he kept postponing until they no longer seemed possible to him. Images of desert faces and a road fold into the bar where friends raise a glass in his honor, while a silent boy caught between a ward and whatever waits past it watches as the dining room fills and he takes his seat there.
Reading Dinner at God’s House by Todd B. Lieman is a fresh twist on the walk through an afterlife. Erik is the main character, but there are so many others who are on this journey with him, such as Jond, who refers to him in a way he had almost forgotten, and Ira opening the door to a Tuscan-style house. Moments like a Wiffle ball game and a walk in an aspen forest give both texture and really lovely nostalgia, with enough humanity to tap into and trust Lieman's emotional core. I appreciated how the book handles Erik’s long-held questions about faith through concrete memories, like praying on airplanes or trying to talk with Timmy, instead of offering long-winded theology. Between a unique premise and the surprise of a jester, Dinner at God’s House is itself an inviting experience. Recommended.
